Adding to the complexiites - Martha Ertman  has an interesting recent piece on anti-polygamy laws,  in which she discusses how  race may figure into this as well.
19 Colum.  J  Gender & Law 287 ( 2010)


Toni M. Massaro
Regents' Professor, Milton O. Riepe Chair in Constitutional Law, and Dean Emerita
The University of Arizona
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